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| "Golden Reflections by Fred Saberhagen (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "Mike Gabrieli&39;s brother Tom has always had one talent getting into trouble But this time Tom has disappeared after mysteriously gaining possession of a priceless Aztec artifact Mike sets out to find Tom never suspecting that he is about to be shuttled back and forth in time and between alternate universes The descendants of the Incas have a plan to keep Pizarro and his conquistidors from overthrowing their ancestors&39; empire In spite of Mike sympathy for their cause he faces the possibility that instead of creating an alternate world with the Incas ascendant he may be wiping out the world he was born into - and himself along with it In addition to Fred Saberhagen novel The Mask of the Sun seven top writers have contributed stories set in the same universe including New York Times best-selling authors David Weber and Harry Turtledove as well as Walter Jon Williams John Maddox Roberts and Jane Lindskold"
Price: 12.99 |
| "Golden Reflections by Fred Saberhagen (Book, 2011)" |
| "Mike Gabrieli''s brother Tom has always had one talent getting into trouble But this time Tom has disappeared after mysteriously gaining possession of a priceless Aztec artifact Mike sets out to find him never suspecting that he is about to be shuttled back and forth in time and between alternate universes The descendants of the Incas have a plan to keep Pizarro and his conquistidors from overthrowing their ancestors'' empire In spite of Mike''s sympathy for their cause he faces the possibility that instead of creating an alternate world with the Incas ascendant he may be wiping out the world he was born into - and himself along with it! In addition to Fred Saberhagen''s novel The Mask of the Sun seven top writers have contributed stories set in the same universe The contributors include New York Times bestselling authors David Weber and Harry Turtledove as well as Walter Jon Williams John Maddox Roberts Jane Lindskold and more expanding on Fred Saberhagen''s concept and bringing their own perspectives to this volume of exciting alternate universe adventure"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Grantville Gazette: v. 2 by Eric Flint (Book, 2006)" |
| "The new United States in central Germany launches a one-plane raid on Paris The target their arch-enemy Cardinal Richelieu Mike Steams decides to send a mercenary company to rescue an ambassador from India held captive in Austria But the two 17th century officers in command an Englishman and a Irishman spend as much time fighting each other as they do the enemy Mike Spehar&39;s "Collateral Damage" and Chris Weber&39;s "The Company Men" are just two of the stories contained in this second volume of "Grantville Gazette" Among several other stories in this volume is a complete novel by new alternate history star Danita Ewing "An Invisible War" the new United States founds a medical school in Jena despite resistance from up-timers and down-timers alike This second volume of "Grantville Gazette" also contains articles exploring the technical background for the 1632 series including articles on practical geology telecommunications and seventeenth-century swordsmanship"
Price: 16.49 |
| "Grantville Gazette IV by Baen Books (Book, 2010)" |
| "After the West Virginia town of Grantville was unceremoniously hurled back through time to the 1630s the seventeenth century would never be the same Teenage capitalist girls have formed an investment group; a linotype operator whose profession was wiped out by computers finds a new life in an old century; a narrow gauge railroad with a sit-down mower doubling as a locomotive revolutionizes military transportation; the proud tradition of the US Marines is started ahead of schedule among downtime Europeans; and what will the master musicians and composers of the pre-Bach era make of heavy metal sounds? On a more personal level two young lovers celebrate Christmas in a strange land and time a skilled blacksmith clashes with his guild and a woman loses her husband in an industrial accident and decides to leave Grantville Plus factual articles on the problems of beginning an oil industry building a machine gun or starting up the manufacture of textiles centuries ahead of their time All this and more in a new and absolutely indispensable volume for the many followers of the 1632 series"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Grantville Gazette: VI by Baen Books (Hardback, 2012)" |
| "This is the sixth rollicking thought-provoking anthology of tales set in Eric Flint&39;s phenomenal "New York Times" bestselling "Ring of Fire" series - all inspired and edited by the creator himself Eric Flint A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe It will take all the gumption of the resourceful freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in the mad and bloody end of medieval times Are they up for it? You bet they are! Edited by Eric Flint and inspired by his now-legendary 1632 this is the fun stuff that fills in the pieces of the "Ring of Fire" political social and cultural puzzle as supporting characters we meet in the novels get their own lives loves and life-changing stories The future and democracy have arrived with a bang and the forces of freedom have a chance to take the "evil" out of medieval three centuries ahead of schedule"
Price: 16.49 |
| "Guardian of Night by Tony Daniel (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Hunt for Red October in space complete with a fascinating alien “Sean Connery” ship commander heroic human space-naval officers and a rousing blast-off of a final battle on the edge of the Solar System For alien commander Arid Ricimer there was no going home His species was winning the war with Earth but the civilization he had fought for was gone destroyed from within by ideologues and bureaucrats So he does the only thing that makes sense to a person of integrity—he attempts to defect to Earth with his officers and an entire spaceship a vessel that mounts a superweapon of almost unimaginable power Hot on his heels is his former fleet a force that has already devastated Earth once and is poised to wipe humanity from existence forever ready to do almost anything to deny Earth a chance To the defenders of Earth he is an enigma—and potentially a Trojan horse Yet after years of battling back from the brink of destruction the US space navy has the war-tested heroes to rise to the challenge Ricimer represents—and the danger that follows him—if only those in charge will listen The players are in motion and the greatest confrontation this sector of the galaxy has ever witnessed is at hand Now all depends on the courage of an honorable alien warrior and the intelligence and daring of his human allies About the AuthorTony Daniel is the author of five science fiction books the latest of which is Guardian of Night as well as an award-winning short story collection The Robot’s Twilight Companion He is Hugo finalist for his story “Life on the Moon” which also won the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award Daniel’s short fiction has been much anthologized and has been collected in multiple year’s best compilations Daniel has also cowritten screenplays for SyFy Channel horror movies and during the early 2000s was the writer and director of numerous audio dramas for critically-acclaimed SCIFICOM’s Seeing Ear Theatre Born in Alabama Daniel has lived in St Louis Los Angeles Seattle Prague and New York City He now lives in North Carolina with his wife and two children"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Guardian of Night by Tony Daniel (Book, 2013)" |
| "The Hunt for Red October in space complete with a fascinating alien “Sean Connery” ship commander heroic human space-naval officers and a rousing blast-off of a final battle on the edge of the Solar System For alien commander Arid Ricimer there was no going home His species was winning the war with Earth but the civilization he had fought for was gone destroyed from within by ideologues and bureaucrats So he does the only thing that makes sense to a person of integrity—he attempts to defect to Earth with his officers and an entire spaceship a vessel that mounts a superweapon of almost unimaginable power Hot on his heels is his former fleet a force that has already devastated Earth once and is poised to wipe humanity from existence forever ready to do almost anything to deny Earth a chance To the defenders of Earth he is an enigma—and potentially a Trojan horse Yet after years of battling back from the brink of destruction the US space navy has the war-tested heroes to rise to the challenge Ricimer represents—and the danger that follows him—if only those in charge will listen The players are in motion and the greatest confrontation this sector of the galaxy has ever witnessed is at hand Now all depends on the courage of an honorable alien warrior and the intelligence and daring of his human allies About the AuthorTony Daniel is the author of five science fiction books the latest of which is Guardian of Night as well as an award-winning short story collection The Robot’s Twilight Companion He is Hugo finalist for his story “Life on the Moon” which also won the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award Daniel’s short fiction has been much anthologized and has been collected in multiple year’s best compilations Daniel has also cowritten screenplays for SyFy Channel horror movies and during the early 2000s was the writer and director of numerous audio dramas for critically-acclaimed SCIFICOM’s Seeing Ear Theatre Born in Alabama Daniel has lived in St Louis Los Angeles Seattle Prague and New York City He now lives in North Carolina with his wife and two children"
Price: 7.49 |
| "How Dark the World Becomes by Frank Chadwick (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "The stunning debut of a nonstop science fiction noir thriller from legendary game creator Frank Chadwick! Sasha Naradnyo is a gangster He a gangster with heart sure but Sasha sticks his neck out for no man That how you stay alive in Crack City a colony stuffed deep into the crust of the otherwise unlivable planet Peezgtaan Alive only - because if you human you don prosper at least not for long Sasha is a second generation City native His parents came to this rock figuring to make it big only to find that they been recruited as an indentured labor force for alien overlords known as the Varoki Now a pair of rich young Varoki under the care of a beautiful human nanny are fleeing Peezgtaan and Sasha is recruited to help But Sasha discovers his simple choice has thrust him into the midst of a political battle that could remake the galactic balance of power and save humanity from slow death by servitude Now all he has to do is survive and keep his charges alive on a hostile planet undergoing its own revolution"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Ice and Shadow by Andre Norton (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Roane a young archaeologist makes planetfall on a previously off-limits world where the inhabitants have been implanted with false memories and conditioned to obey their oligarchic masters Now Roane must fight to save the enslaved populace and her own inner essence by finding a powerful artifact that could bring new freedom to a planet that has spent eons in darkness Introducing two bestselling novels of science fiction adventure set in the Forerunner universe from legendary storyteller Andre Norton - together for the first time Ice Crown and Brother to Shadows"
Price: 9.49 |
| "In Fire Forged: v. 5: Worlds of Honor by David Weber (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "Honor Harrington is arguably the most popular character in modern science fiction but there are many other stories in the Honorverse besides those in which she has the central role This fifth volume in the popular Worlds of Honor series explores some of those stories with the help of such top writers as best-selling author Jane LIndskjold New York Times best-selling author Timothy Zahn and more—including an all-new Honor Harrington adventure set in her younger years when a mob of space pirates made the mistake of tangling with Commander Harrington That was a fatal mistake—for the pirates About the AuthorDavid Weber is the science fiction phenomenon of the decade His popular Honor Harrington novels repeatedly make the New York Times best seller list and can’t come out fast enough for his devoted readers He has also written the popular Safehold series for Tor and a best-selling epic SF adventure series in collaboration with John Ringo with four novels so far March Upcountry March to the Sea March to the Stars and We Few His Wind Rider’s Oath another New York Times best seller continues his popular Bahzell fantasy adventure series"
Price: 16.99 |
| "Into the Hinterlands by John Lambshead, David Drake (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "When Allen Allenson scion of a noble family that has fallen on hard times gets a mission to roust the power-hungry Terrans from a “wild” star sector where they’re encroaching he jumps at the chance to show his individual worth improve his family’s fortunes – and gather enough lucre to make a good marriage But the wily Terrans are not so easily persuaded by a young colonial they think of as a rube Worse Riders the beings who naturally ply the wilderness between the stars are playing their own deadly political games – against the Terrans against the colonials and against one young greenhorn commander in particular naïf young Allen whom they figure they can manipulate to do their bidding The one thing nobody has counted on is the fact that Allen while young and inexperienced and much to his own amazement happens to be a hero in the making About the AuthorThe Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav the Blackhorse He learned new skills saw interesting sights and met exotic people who hadn&39;t run fast enough to get away Dave returned to become Chapel Hill&39;s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences Dave describes war from where he saw it the loader&39;s hatch of a tank in Cambodia His military experience combined with his formal education in history and Latin has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy His bestselling Hammer&39;s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF He often wishes he had a less interesting background Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina Dr John Lambshead is senior research scientist in marine biodiversity at the Natural History Museum London He is also the Visiting Chair at Southampton University Oceanography and Regent’s Lecturer University of California He also writes military history and designs computer and fantasy games"
Price: 16.49 |
| "The Secret World Chronicle: Bk. 1: Invasion by Cody Martin, Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libbey, Dennis Lee (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "The world had become used to the metahumans - people sometimes perfectly ordinary but sometimes quite extraordinary in appearance - who mostly worked with their governments as high-powered peace officers fighting crime and sometimes fighting rogue metahumans who had become super-criminals Then that comfortable world ended in just one terrifying day Suddenly all world governments were simultaneously attacked by soldiers in giant mecha robotic suits with the swastika symbol of the Third Reich on their metal arms If these were Nazis where had they been hiding since the end of World War II? And where had they gotten armor and weapons far in advance of anything on the planet? Weapons against which even the metahuman heroes seemed to be helpless"
Price: 16.99 |
| "Laugh Lines by Ben Bova (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "Ben Bova best-selling and award-winning author of the "Grand Tour" and "Asteroid Wars" series takes a sardonic look at the humorous possibilities of future technology The Starcrossed Bill Oxnard a young technological genius had perfected true three-dimensional television making ordinary TV obsolete He thought he would be rich and famous — but he hadn&39;t realized how deranged the executives running the industry were; nor what sort of programs they were planning to broadcast using the new process in the maniacal quest for ratings About the AuthorBen Bova is a six-time winner of the coveted Hugo Award and many other awards including the John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel of the Year (2006 for Titan) and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C Clarke Foundation He is the former editor of Analog and Omni magazines and the author of over a hundred books both fiction and non-fiction Bova has served as president of both the Science Fiction Writers of America and the National Space Society He lives in Florida"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Laugh Lines by Ben Bova (Book, 2009)" |
| "Ben Bova best-selling and award-winning author of the "Grand Tour" and "Asteroid Wars" series takes a sardonic look at the humorous possibilities of future technology The Starcrossed Bill Oxnard a young technological genius had perfected true three-dimensional television making ordinary TV obsolete He thought he would be rich and famous — but he hadn&39;t realized how deranged the executives running the industry were; nor what sort of programs they were planning to broadcast using the new process in the maniacal quest for ratings About the AuthorBen Bova is a six-time winner of the coveted Hugo Award and many other awards including the John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel of the Year (2006 for Titan) and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C Clarke Foundation He is the former editor of Analog and Omni magazines and the author of over a hundred books both fiction and non-fiction Bova has served as president of both the Science Fiction Writers of America and the National Space Society He lives in Florida"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Loose Cannon by David Drake (Book, 2012)" |
| "Military science fiction master David Drake’s two technothriller Tom Kelly novels Skyripper and Fortress in one volume SkyripperDuring the Cold War a Soviet scientist has knowledge the Earth will be attacked by aliens but only the US has the laser-based technology to knock out the alien weaponry Enter Tom Kelly American spy navigator of the US intelligence agency spaghetti and ruthlessly effective operative when it comes to doing his job Kelly will get the information into the right hands to save most of humanity – but in the process he’s prepared to annihilate anyone who gets in the way of his duty FortressTom Kelly and his ruthless adventurous ways return in an alternate past as JFK builds a space station to guard against alien attack Now nefarious forces with the Soviet Union as well as actual evil aliens are trying to turn it against Earth and the US THEY may have the high ground and the element of surprise on their hands but WE have Tom Kelly For better or worse Or both About the AuthorThe Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav the Blackhorse He learned new skills saw interesting sights and met exotic people who hadn&39;t run fast enough to get away Dave returned to become Chapel Hill&39;s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences Dave describes war from where he saw it the loader&39;s hatch of a tank in Cambodia His military experience combined with his formal education in history and Latin has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy His bestselling Hammer&39;s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF He often wishes he had a less interesting background Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Loose Cannon: The Tom Kelly Novels by David Drake (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Military science fiction master David Drake’s two technothriller Tom Kelly novels Skyripper and Fortress in one volume SkyripperDuring the Cold War a Soviet scientist has knowledge the Earth will be attacked by aliens but only the US has the laser-based technology to knock out the alien weaponry Enter Tom Kelly American spy navigator of the US intelligence agency spaghetti and ruthlessly effective operative when it comes to doing his job Kelly will get the information into the right hands to save most of humanity – but in the process he’s prepared to annihilate anyone who gets in the way of his duty FortressTom Kelly and his ruthless adventurous ways return in an alternate past as JFK builds a space station to guard against alien attack Now nefarious forces with the Soviet Union as well as actual evil aliens are trying to turn it against Earth and the US THEY may have the high ground and the element of surprise on their hands but WE have Tom Kelly For better or worse Or both About the AuthorThe Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav the Blackhorse He learned new skills saw interesting sights and met exotic people who hadn&39;t run fast enough to get away Dave returned to become Chapel Hill&39;s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences Dave describes war from where he saw it the loader&39;s hatch of a tank in Cambodia His military experience combined with his formal education in history and Latin has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy His bestselling Hammer&39;s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF He often wishes he had a less interesting background Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina "
Price: 9.49 |
| "Migration by James P. Hogan (Hardback, 2010)" |
| "After Armageddon Came a Renaissance Reaching for the Stars—but was It Only a False Rebirth? Real science fiction by a New York Times best-selling author The world of the past eventually died in the conflagration toward which it had been doggedly heading A more fragmented and diversified order has emerged from the ruins and technology has reappeared to a greater or lesser degree in some places and not at all in others Unique among them is the nation-state of Sofi with an exceptional population that has rediscovered advanced science However as the old patterns that led to ruin before begin to reassert themselves across the rest of the world a scientific-political movement within Sofi embarks on a years-long project to build a generation starship that will enable them to create their own world elsewhere The circumstances and thinking of future generations growing up in the totally unknown situation of a space environment cannot be known Accordingly the mission will include different groups of idealists reformers misfits and dissidents who are not satisfied with the world-in-miniature that constitutes the original mother ship to go out and build whatever they want Hence what arrives at the distant star generations hence will be a flotilla of variously run city states frontier towns religious monasteries pleasure resorts urban crushes rural spreads academic retreats and who-knows what else The trouble began of course when all the old patterns that they thought they were getting away from started reappearing About the AuthorJames P Hogan is a science fiction writer in the grand tradition combining informed and accurate speculation from the cutting edge of science and technology with suspenseful story-telling and living breathing characters His first novel was greeted by Isaac Asimov with the rave “Pure science fiction Arthur Clarke move over!” and his subsequent work quickly consolidated his reputation as a major SF author He has written nearly twenty novels including Cradle of Saturn and Bug Park (both Baen) the Giants series (Del Rey) the New York Times bestsellers The Proteus Operation and Endgame Enigma and the Prometheus Award Winner The Multiplex Man"
Price: 15.49 |
| "Miles Mutants and Microbes by Lois McMaster Bujold (Book, 2008)" |
| "Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volumeFalling Free—The Nebula Award-winning novel Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer mind your own business and do the job But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat where children had been bio-engineered to have four arms (and no legs) to function in zero gravity Now that they’re no longer needed a heartless mega corporation is getting rid of them before they eat into the profit margin Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies—now he had to teach them to be free “Labyrinth”—When Miles Vorkosigan is captured while on a secret mission to a lawless world his only hope of escape is an unlikely pair of allies a quaddie and a teenage werewolf Diplomatic Immunity— Miles Vorkosigan and his wife were heading home for the births of their first children but a major diplomatic disaster is looming at Graf Station colonized by the descendants of the original quaddies and duty calls Unfortunately diplomatic immunity doesn’t carry over to immunity from a very nasty biological weapon The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back About the AuthorLois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy and has won six Hugo Awards and two Nebula Awards including a Nebula Award for Falling Free included in Miles and Metallurgy She immediately attracted attention with her first novel Shards of Honor which began her popular Vorkosigan series and quickly followed it up with The Warrior’s Apprentice which introduced young Miles Vorkosigan one of the most popular characters ever in science fiction Her recent fantasy series for Harper-Collins has been a top seller and its second entry Paladin of Souls took home her latest Hugo Award The mother of two Ms Bujold lives in Minneapolis MN"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Mission of Honor by David Weber (Hardback, 2010)" |
| "Honor Harrington is Back The New York Times Best-Selling Series Continues 38 Million Honor Harrington Books in Print7 Million David Weber Books in Print17 New York Times Best SellersThe Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington&39;s entire life and she has paid a price for the victories she&39;s achieved in that conflict And now the unstoppable juggernaut of the mighty Solarian League is on a collision course with Manticore The millions who have already died may have been only a foretaste of the billions of casualties just over the horizon and Honor sees it coming She&39;s prepared to do anything risk anything to stop it and she has a plan that may finally bring an end to the Havenite Wars and give even the Solarian League pause But there are things not even Honor knows about There are forces in play hidden enemies in motion all converging on the Star Kingdom of Manticore to crush the very life out of it and Honor&39;s worst nightmares fall short of the oncoming reality But Manticore&39;s enemies may not have thought of everything after all Because if everything Honor Harrington loves is going down to destruction it won&39;t be going alone About the AuthorDavid Weber is the science fiction phenomenon of the decade His popular Honor Harrington novels have repeatedly make the New York Times best seller list and can’t come out fast enough for his devoted readers He has also written the popular Safehold series for Tor and a best-selling epic SF adventure series in collaboration with John Ringo His Wind Rider’s Oath another New York Times best seller continues his popular Bahzell fantasy adventure series"
Price: 16.99 |
| "Moon Flower by James P. Hogan (Book, 2011)" |
| "Something strange is happening on the planet Cyrene which is in the early phases of being developed by the mammoth Interworld Restructuring Corporation Terrans from the base there have been disappearing Myles Callen a ruthlessly efficient Facilitator is sent to investigate Also with the mission is Marc Shearer a young idealistic quantum physicist disillusioned with the world who on his way to join a former colleague Evan Wade On arrival he finds that Wade too has vanished and doesn't want to be found by the Terran authorities Wade has arranged contact via the Cyreneans however and accompanied by two companions that he has befriended Shearer embarks on a journey to find his friend that will change Cyrene - and Earth itself!"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Mouse and Dragon by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (Hardback, 2010)" |
| "The sequel to Saltation a new novel in the breakout Liaden Universe® space opera series with a huge and active base of fans! A young heroine and the future co-leader of her star-faring clan battle nefarious forces from within the empire that threaten her family and her man Aelliana Caylon has escaped her abusive family She&39;s found love in her starship co-pilot—a man who turns out to be the leader of Korval the most powerful clan of the Liaden Universe® But destiny never intended an easy life for Aelliana Insidious forces within the empire are determined that a new line of Korval heirs be destroyed and that Clan Korval itself be blasted to interplanetary dust The fight for the future of the Liaden Universe® is on and one heroine is determined to protect her family and her soulmate at all costs!About the AuthorSharon Lee and Steve Miller live in the rolling hills of Central Maine with two insistent muses in the form of cats and a large cast of characters The husband-and-wife team&39;s collaborative work in science fiction and fantasy include twelve novels and numerous short stories in their award-winning Liaden Universe® In addition to their collaborative work Steve has seen short stories nonfiction and reviews published under his name while Sharon has published short stories newspaper pieces and two mystery novels and most recently Carousel Tides from Baen"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Necessity's Child by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "16 in the popular and exciting science fiction Liaden Universe® A man without a past caught between powerful Clan Korval and secretive kompani Stirring SF adventure from master storytellers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller—16 in the award-winning Liaden Universe® saga Space ships action adventure—all tied together with a strong dollop of romance and clan intrigue – make this a compelling series for a wide range of readers from romance to military SF lovers The kompani sees none as an enemy and yet few as friend The kompani exists in many places living quietly in the shadows thriving off the bounty that others have no wit to secure nor skill to defend Their private history is unwritten; their recall rooted in dance and dream The humans of Clan Korval is in many ways the opposite of the kompani The interstellar trading clan is wealthy in enemies fortunate in friends Korval protects itself with vigor and teaches even its youngest children the art of war And when representatives of Clan Korval arrive on the planet Surebleak where the kompani has lived secret and aloof it seems to the kompani that they are borne by the very winds of change Change can be a boon for in change lies opportunity But the arrival of Clan Korval establishing itself upon Surebleak with its friends its enemies and most of all its plans may bring catastrophe changing the culture and the kompani forever In this time of change the lives of three people intersect — Kezzi apprentice to the kompani&39;s grandmother; Syl Vor Clan Korval&39;s youngest warrior; and Rys a man without a world or a past Necessity&39;s Child is a standalone adventure in the popular and exciting Liaden UniverseAbout the AuthorMaine-based writers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller teamed up in the late 80&39;s to bring the world the story of Kinzel a inept wizard with a love of cats a thirst for justice and a staff of true power Since then the husband-and-wife have written dozens of short stories and eighteen novels most set in their star-spanning Liaden Universe® Before settling down to the serene and stable life of a science fiction and fantasy writer Steve was a traveling poet a rock-band reviewer reporter and editor of a string of community newspapers Sharon less adventurous has been an advertising copywriter copy editor on night-side news at a small city newspaper reporter photographer and book reviewer Both credit their newspaper experiences with teaching them the finer points of collaboration Sharon and Steve passionately believe that reading fiction ought to be fun and that stories are entertainment "
Price: 16.49 |
| "Necessity's Child by Steve Miller (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "16 in the popular and exciting science fiction Liaden Universe® A man without a past caught between powerful Clan Korval and secretive kompani Stirring SF adventure from master storytellers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller—16 in the award-winning Liaden Universe® saga Space ships action adventure—all tied together with a strong dollop of romance and clan intrigue – make this a compelling series for a wide range of readers from romance to military SF lovers The kompani sees none as an enemy and yet few as friend The kompani exists in many places living quietly in the shadows thriving off the bounty that others have no wit to secure nor skill to defend Their private history is unwritten; their recall rooted in dance and dream The humans of Clan Korval is in many ways the opposite of the kompani The interstellar trading clan is wealthy in enemies fortunate in friends Korval protects itself with vigor and teaches even its youngest children the art of war And when representatives of Clan Korval arrive on the planet Surebleak where the kompani has lived secret and aloof it seems to the kompani that they are borne by the very winds of change Change can be a boon for in change lies opportunity But the arrival of Clan Korval establishing itself upon Surebleak with its friends its enemies and most of all its plans may bring catastrophe changing the culture and the kompani forever In this time of change the lives of three people intersect — Kezzi apprentice to the kompani&39;s grandmother; Syl Vor Clan Korval&39;s youngest warrior; and Rys a man without a world or a past Necessity&39;s Child is a standalone adventure in the popular and exciting Liaden UniverseAbout the AuthorMaine-based writers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller teamed up in the late 80&39;s to bring the world the story of Kinzel a inept wizard with a love of cats a thirst for justice and a staff of true power Since then the husband-and-wife have written dozens of short stories and eighteen novels most set in their star-spanning Liaden Universe® Before settling down to the serene and stable life of a science fiction and fantasy writer Steve was a traveling poet a rock-band reviewer reporter and editor of a string of community newspapers Sharon less adventurous has been an advertising copywriter copy editor on night-side news at a small city newspaper reporter photographer and book reviewer Both credit their newspaper experiences with teaching them the finer points of collaboration Sharon and Steve passionately believe that reading fiction ought to be fun and that stories are entertainment "
Price: 16.99 |
| "Of Berserkers, Swords and Vampires by Fred Saberhagen (Book, 2010)" |
| "Bestselling author Fred Saberhagen created three popular series his Berserker stories and novels telling of the endless war of humans and their alien allies against the Berserkers gigantic robot battleships programmed by an unknown extinct race to destory all life in the galaxy; his high fantasy Lost Swords series; and his Dracula series the first novels to tell a story from the vampire's point of view In a book that will be irresistible for the thousands of Saberhagen fans all three series are represented here as well as gems from his other series including his first-published story and his last-written story marking the endpoints of a remarkable writer's remarkable career that spanned more than four decades"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Overthrowing Heaven by Mark L. Van Name (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "It began as a favor to a woman trying to get away from an abusive husband Jon Moore grew up in a prison laboratory When he escaped with nothing but his body&39;s nanotech enhancements and more anger than even a long lifetime could wash away an entire planet died behind him Memories of the things he’d done still haunted him; because of them he often ended up helping those in need His kindnesses frequently didn&39;t work out well This one really didn&39;t work out well It hurled Jon and Lobo the intelligent assault vehicle and Jon&39;s only friend down an accelerating ever more dangerous spiral involving· Private armies and government covert ops teams· A courtesan who always seems a step ahead of him· Rival superpowers that define Good in terms of their own advantage and Ethics as whatever doesn&39;t get in the way of their Good· And a brilliant amoral scientist to whom human beings are just more experimental animals—and who might be Lobo’s creator Jon and Lobo take the reader on a headlong rush through armed enemies and untrustworthy allies and encounter what just might be the worst danger their partnership will face the truth About the AuthorMark L Van Name whom John Ringo has said is "going to be the guy to beat in the race to the top of SFdom" has worked in the high-tech industry for over 30 years and today runs a technology assessment company in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina A former Executive Vice President for Ziff Davis Media and a national technology columnist he&39;s published over a thousand computer-related articles and multiple science fiction stories in a variety of magazines and anthologies including the Year&39;s Best Science Fiction Jon & Lobo stories have appeared in a Baen anthology and Jim Baen&39;s Universe"
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| "Portal by Eric Flint, Ryk E. Spoor (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "The sequel to Threshold Book Three in the Boundary series! Madeline Fathom had miraculously landed the crippled Nebula Storm on Europa She joined on that frozen moon of Jupiter the stranded crewmembers of the ill-fated EU vessel Odin The Nebula Storm's reactor was ruined in the landing the Odin shuttle can make the trip back home and the only vessel that could have made the journey to save them has just been destroyed by a renegade crewman bad luck and the remorseless forces of nature But Madeline Helen Sutter AJ Baker and the team have one card left to play All they have to do is survive lethal radiation vacuum and ice as hard as steel while they figure out how to make Nebula Storm fly again But even as they prepare to make the journey home Europa has one more discovery waiting for them a discovery that might be the deadliest trap in the Solar System!"
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| "Ragnarok by Patrick A. Vanner (Book, 2011)" |
| "Captain Alexandra Alex McLaughlin is not a woman to be underestimated Under her petite exterior is a spine of solid steel and a disposition to laugh in the face of impending death A former member of the Terran Navy's elite force the Dead Jokers electronic-warfare pilots with a mortality rate to match that of old Japan's Kamikazes Alex is a born survivor But sometimes survival can be a curse Humanity is locked in a war of survival with the Xan-Sskarn an alien race that refuses to acknowledge the rights of weaker creatures to live It is a war that will not end with a peace treaty but only the complete subjugation of one species to the other And right now the alien side is winning However the enemy on the outside is not the only one to be faced As the battles take on an eerily familiar pattern of no-win scenarios Alex realizes the horrifying truth; humanity has a traitor and it's somebody close As each battle brings more death Alex's ghosts grow and so does her desire for vengeance There is only one way for this to end and Alex is just the human to take it there - to Ragnarok!"
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| "Ring of Fire: III by Baen Books (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "Rock on Renaissance! A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe It will take all the gumption of the resourceful freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in mad and bloody end of medieval times Are they up for it? You bet they are! The third rollicking and idea-packed collection of Grantville tales edited by Eric Flint and inspired by his now-legendary 1632 features tales by a star-studded array of top writers such as bestseller Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint himself - all set in Flint&39;s phenomenal Ring of Fire series"
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| "Rogue by Michael Z. Williamson (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "The sequel to Michael Z Williamson&39;s The Weapon! Kenneth Chinran commanded the elite unit assigned to take out an entire planet in a terrible war Millions died; billions more perished in the aftermath One doesn&39;t send a sociopath on such a mission A sociopath might not stop Chinran did stop - but in the process nearly lost his sanity and his soul But one of Chinran&39;s men was a sociopath going in Now he&39;s a trained sociopath with the knowledge and firepower to take out entire tactical teams evaporate through security cordons and change identity at will Who do you send after a killer like that? There&39;s only one answer the man who trained him The man who made him"
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| "Saint Antony's Fire by Steve White (Hardback, 2008)" |
| " "In our universe Ponce de Leon is remembered for his fruitless search for the mythical fountain of youth But in an alternate universe his quest found something very different - and very dangerous After his return to Spain bizarre rumors flew about what he had found there and who - or what - had come back with him" "Seventy-five years later in 1588 Spain sent a vast Armada of ships against England The English were confident that they could repel the threat - but England&39;s fleet was annihilated by weapons shooting beams of fiery light weapons which seemed to employ the blackest of sorcery even if they were wielded by beings in holy monk&39;s garb" The Queen herself was forced to flee to the New World accompanied by her advisor Dr Dee whom some called a sorcerer and an odd fellow named Shakespeare hoping there to find the source of Spain&39;s powerful weapons But they would find matters there far stranger than they had expected such as meeting a grown woman who had been an infant only a year before and eerie tales of a gate to another world filled with beings who were not human"
Price: 15.99 |
